Decreasing Global Warming and Climate Change for all of us.

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Be a Partner in Climate Change and EarnSustainable forestry requires the thinning of the forest. The trees that we thin each year contain sequestered carbon. It is our job to retain that carbon within the lumber by making top quality wood products that will be passed on from generation to generation. We are the source, our pricing is so low that we can offer a partner the opportunity to make advanced purchases, we use the funds to capitalize, thin the forest, manufacture, package and ship on a six to 12-month basis. In return we sell the partner's advanced purchase for a retail price and return the proceeds to the partner and the project.

Agroforestry Home PageThe proceeds from this store are for agroforestry development using bio-diversified sustainable reforestation building a locally based economy and sequestering carbon.

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IN THE PHOTO: The Philippines has over 300 edible types of fruit. In a local contest

IVAFMS staff asked students to name the fruit in the photo,

most fruit named ... eleven.

Barren/underproductive land is used moving supply chain into the community where value-add begins. Two million trees within five years ramping to twenty million trees through voluntary replication within 15 years. Scaling and replicating is feasible throughout the tropical third world.

Successful reforestation:

A self-sustaining locally based economy at the beginning of the supply chain

Social interfacing with those who deforested, their adult children, who subsist; and grandchildren who have never known a forest or the rationale of having one

01/01/2010

What is in the power of a logo? Just ask
Coco Cola, Pepsi, GM, Citibank, Star bucks
and a million more. With the five major companies
mentioned you can visualize each logo without actually have to see it,
therefore and conversely, when the reader sees the logo he or she immediately
links it to the product and begins to think about how that mental image
translates to emotion, environmental and primordial.

When emotions are positive it is an easy step
forward to like a company, its products, services or whatever is represented. These companies can help break myths that are counterproductive to Climate Change correction.

Example:
When the buying public sees "Intel Inside" they
feel confident about buying the computer. This example speaks volumes, is
so easy to understand and appreciate.

Some say that it does not take a rocket
scientist to realize that the climate is changing.

With Climate Change we must react
immediately!

Others remain in doubt or denial.

A controversy
still exists over what is causing the weather to change.

Nevertheless, the climate is changing and myths suppress one of the prime solutions.

Many agree that reforestation will help decrease the rate of increase of Global Warming the fastest of any other solution, which needs to involve the Third World. Myths do get in the way of this common sense and slow down implementation of the prime solution, i.e., reforestation in the tropical forests of the Third World.

Notice square concrete water tank below.

Reforestation begins with the local inhabitants of the barren land. This caretaker is a stakeholder in the IVAFMS agroforestry project on Ilin Island, 2001

Myth: The poor people, especially the informal settlers (squatters) will not grow trees because they provide no immediate subsistence.

Who subscribes to this myth?: Large land owners

Myth Busted: The poor people are the ones who previously cut down the forest as day laborers for many of the old landlords and loggers. The poor know first hand how their lives changed for the worse, once the forests were cut that ended daily employment, hunting and gathering came to an end. Poverty only increased.

Notice square concrete water tank above, just 8 years after the above photo, 2009.

Answer: The locals are the solution, not the problem. Five decades of denuded forest land has confused the issue and supported the myth, however, the elders are standing by to convince their youth and to oversee reforestation.

The elder landlords know very well, but clear-cutters of the forest were beneficiaries of the myth which excused them from having to reforest. This makes it more difficult to debunk the myth with their young who have inherited the land are apprehensive, if not afraid, to work with the locals.

Just ask them, "What have you done with your land for the past 25 years?" The general answer: "Nothing." Why?: "Squatters!" "What do you plan on doing with your land over the next 25 years?" "Don't know."

01/02/2010

Even though the Copenhagen conference regarding Climate Change, held in December 2009, did not end with a consensus, the fact that the follow-on meeting is to be in Mexico in a matter of months, rather than years, implies that we have an undeniable consensus that Climate Change is real, something that was not nearly universally accepted merely a decade ago.

The UN has for more than a decade taken the issue of Climate Change public around the world. Its forum remains at the highest levels. The signatory countries, more than 100, have signed the
resolutions and protocols of the several worldwide conferences held on the
subject and are on board in one way or another.

The roadblock that prevents true consensus ... question:

"Who is going to pay?" Those being pointed at are reeling, moving backward and away from the negotiating table. In reality there is no such thing as a non-polluting country; however, the process has emphasized the Developed Countries as the polluters and the massive finger pointing is in that direction.

Whichever side of the table you find yourself, there is no sense in continuing the argument about who is the polluter and who is the victim. It is a no-win argument and will end in lose, lose delays for every person, the lowest possible common denominator. Each person may become either the most vulnerable loser or most significant beneficiary.

We must make this choice about breaking from tradition in time to mitigate and even neutralize Climate Change, yes it can even be slowed to a stopping point. The solutions are within reach, but the lose, lose policy issues about responsibility remain in the forefront; we cannot see what is actually available to us immediately fore the confusion of who is at fault, a superflous point that obscurs the real solutions from being seen.

The Developed Countries will resist paying, regardless ...

... unless we realize:

Each of us, individually, is the product of our traditions and collectively we live our lifestyle, whatever it may be.

Each culture is worthy of both praise and fault to various degrees. In the case of fault, it lies with several generations before any of us were born. We, like all previous generations, follow the lead of our forefathers; but, our children must not be able to say the same to their children of our generation.

The buck stops here and we must be the instrument of immediate change, how?

Finger Pointing

We must point fingers inwardly.

Each world citizen (person) must take responsibility.

The more than 240 countries around the world each have their own governments and citizens.

Governments are already set up to make their respective constituents aware of public issues.

The United Nations is already a massive bureaucracy skilled at putting public awareness materials together in virtually every language and disseminating the materials to its member nations all the way to the grassroots, and, it has the existing budget to do so.

Each member nation of the UN has a population and each member nation has membership dues responsibility.

Climate Change and Green House Gas Emissions are a problem that directly touch every single person on earth, bar none.

Carbon sequestration is likewise a solution imputed to every sole on this earth.

The UN member countries are the stakeholders in mitigating the problem, cleaning it up and then reversing it.

Mistakes of tradition must cease and progress begin.

The United Nations membership represents approximately 6.5 billion people. A simple one dollar assessment of each member nation for each one of its respective population is sufficient to get the Climate Change Mitigation and Reversal Project moving and moving swiftly. We do not need trillions and trillions of dollars, only billions of dollars and billions of people.

How do we do this because the problem is so immense?

This question raises another provocative and illustrative question, "How would we eat an elephant if we had to?" The answer, we know is: "One bite at a time." Now, if 6.5 billion people eat one bite at a time of an elephant we will quickly need megatons more of elephants and more elephants to ensure that each participant gets even one bite. (Environmentalists, please forgive the elephant example, it is only for illustrative purposes because elephants are so big. Maybe mammoths would have been better because they were even larger, but as we know they are already extinct, which is where we and the elephants are headed if we remain at the negotiation table much longer.)

Literature, screen and
student reading materials are publicizing Climate Change.Each country supports the immediate need to
get the world out of harm's way as quickly as possible. Let the UN administer the public awareness program using its existing systems.

There has never been one unifying event to reach billions

Until Now

As long as a person is
human, requires food, clothing, shelter and a world for all that to exist each day, he is going to be
interested in what might radically and uncontrollably change his family's mere
existence.

Wing-wing is one of the IVAFMS foresters who has not earned from planting trees for the past nine years but he understands Climate Change and Global Warming better than the average person enjoying life in the First World. He often asks about the First World wanting to know if the people there are growing trees like he is in order to slow Global Warming. The author has a tough time with that question.

If I lived along the coast, the way so many do, or some of my relatives did, or even my friends or business associates, I would be interested to know that all areas of land less
than one meter above sea level today will most likely be under water before
2050. Knowling that, I would make certain that anyone I knew living along the coast would quickly become informed. (

This is the conservative figure. The more liberal opinion triples this estimate to more than 3 meters.)

IVAFMS Foundation owns this land with biodiversified agroforestry ongoing in the fertile land immediately below the small mountains. The future movement up the mountain side is being contemplated already in this remote part of the world, Third World. In today's electronic world even those living remotely can receive public awareness information and learn from it.

Already, there are
Climate Change Refugees

Climate Change Refugees already exist in parts of the Pacific and are relocated within NZ, this
fact is undeniable. The world leaders are aware, the leading corporations
are aware, the enlightened are aware, the general public is just beginning to become aware. Again, never before will one issue bring so many people together
for a common lifesaving purpose. Let's act now and make the general public aware and then positive things will happen.

This untouched photo was taken in a remote Third World "pollution-free" location where he air is "clean", "very clean" and no unusual weather event had recently ocurred. Ask the scientists what makes a beautiful sunset? They will say that it is the sun's rays relecting off of particles in the atmosphere. We need to act.

01/03/2010

Extreme projects are now being studied on an international
basis:One would involve 16 Trillion mirrors to
deflect the sun's rays from the earth's surface. This project requires
placing the mirrors one million miles out into Space.

Another involves the covering of the remaining glaciers with a
material that would reflect the sun's rays thus minimizing the melting of the
ice.

Another is addressing the melting of frozen methane at the
bottom of the warming sea, which is now converting to gas and
bubbling into the atmosphere.

The enormity of the problem solving and ingenuity that is going
into curbing Climate Change is without parallel, even greater than the building of
the atomic bomb in WWII.

Millions of dollars have already been spent on the pre-feasibility studies of these projects.

Millions of dollars more, and months and months of time, will be necessary to complete the feasibility studies if they are warranted.

Billions, even trillions of dollars will have to be allocated for the implementation phases over years and years. Where will the money come from?

Copenhagen did not resolve how the existing Climate Change programs for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and the creation of extensive carbon sequestration projects will be funded at much smaller price tags.

By the Way, not one of these extreme projects lifts the first finger to help eradicate poverty, which is one of the UN's leading goals as well.

HOWEVER, EVEN IF WE COULD AGREE ON FUNDING, WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO BUILD ...

... AND PUT THEM INTO PLACE WHEN WE HAVE NO IDEA OF THE TRUE
MAGNITUDE AND RELIABILITY OF THE PROPOSED PLAN, PLANS, NEW PLANS, FUTURE PLANS
AND SO FORTH!

How many trillions of dollars will these solutions take?

Which countries will foot the bill?

Which countries can afford the bill?

What committees are going to approve such projects?

WE HAVE THE SOLUTION ALREADY. This program is ongoing, it helps eradicate poverty when combined with agroforestry, it helps Mother Nature to help herself to get out of this problem that we humans have gotten her into. Why does man think that he can use extreme technology to get us out of a problem that two-man-push-pull handsaws, axes and "low tech" chain saws got us into? If we arm Mother Nature she will do the rest and she works 24/7, but only from the time that we arm her, not before since she is exhausted and needs our help to regain her strength. Oh my, once she is strong again and we step out of her way our grandchildren won't have to move onto the foothills of our mountains to have waterfront property, they will be able to stay right where their parents grew up.

Why does man think that he can continue to use fossil fuels?

Maybe it is because fossil fuels were once touted as "the inexhaustible and inexpensive fuel". In its hay day it was considered high-tech to use it for everything, it seemed. We invented plastics, it went into fertilizers and the entire petrochemical industry grew beyond belief. There is no wonder why the many alternatives available have been ignored. How do you swim against the stream? Complicated and expensive processing became the norm since the actual underground supply was cheap, see we got it from Mother Nature for free, or did we?

Without having to resort to extreme engineering, however, we can revisit the simple ways where it is easy to understand right from wrong. For example. Charcoal, when made improperly from living forest materials is not a positive event. However, when it is made properly from dead organic matter we now have Mother Nature's method of pulling exponential amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestering it in the soil on the floor of the forest. The forest itself benefits from that endeavor and grows bigger, sequestering a portion of that carbon in its wood while the rest remains in the soil for years to come.

The conversion to biofuel from non-food stock biomass is a matter of using a press, a simple press and then either using, selling or bartering the fuel right there in the same neighborhood for the local vehicles. No need to transport the biocrude to the refinery, what refinery? It is processed right in the neighborhood, nothing is wasted and there is no pollution.

We do not need to spend millions and millions on developing pyrolysis and other high-tech, high energy methods. It is now the time to decentralize the highly wasteful manufacturing industries moving the responsibility back to the country side. Through miniaturization the processing will be a neighborhood event and business, green, environmentally friendly and efficient. The list goes on.

Just the pre-feasibility study money for the extreme projects is sufficient to get this program to the replication stage. Oh my, let's move our thinking from the extremes and get back to basics. Is there money in it? Sure and most of it stays at the grassroots level where people were previously poor, but there is plenty more for commerce and those wanting to invest along the way.

01/11/2010

Join the soft launch of "The Agroforester" blog. With your contributions we will make the Plant-a-Tree Store become self-sustaining to support the IVAFMS Agroforestry development to reforest 1% of the entire Philippines. Your contributions and your comments are welcome.

Join the soft launch of "The Agroforester" blog. With your contributions we will make the Plant-a-Tree Store become self-sustaining to support the IVAFMS Agroforestry development to reforest 1% of the entire Philippines. Your contributions and your comments are welcome.

01/12/2010

The words contained in these short articles are from real experiences here in the Philippines.

Reforesting begets Oxygen and Sequesters Carbon.

So many myths exist about why we cannot reforest. But we tend to ignore the significance of not doing anything about it. Such as we continue to cut down 17 million trees each year just to make charcoal to supply the number one cooking fuel needs of the country, when we have a total solution already. Very few trees in comparison are planted. Only five years ago the total land area that remained forested has been reduced to where less than 3% has original forest, a drop of more than one full percentage point. At this rate in less than another five years it will all be gone.

Agroforestry's first step is an intelligent and practical one to initiate very small nurseries and planting sites, so small that they do not present a threat to anyone, the establishment or whomever; but numerous enough to make a difference. We are embarking to reforest 1% of the Philippines or 290,000 hectares by
placing our nurseries in each of the villages (details are below) while using local resources for the most part.

This process will add more than half a billion trees to be planted in a design that is both sustainable and economy building at the grassroots. However, large enough to be of interest to the other local residents
who want to use their own resources to copy cat this small project that
is being started by the Foundation in their own village. This voluntary replication will be responsible for additional 6% reforestation bringing the total to 7% which is critical mass, the point when followers just simply follow and replicate even more.

For ramp up and other details please check out the articles and become a fan so updates will be there for you.

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Oh, after you contribute, please let your friends know also. Please rush so our next post will be one about success.

We
have very little time in which to start the rollback of the rate of increase in
global warming and climate change.

Where Are We?

WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO BUILD NEW
SUPER TECHNOLOGIES AND PUT THEM INTO PLACE AT ENORMOUS COST WHEN WE HAVE NO
IDEA OF THE TRUE MAGNITUDE AND RELIABILITY OF THE PROPOSED PLAN, PLANS, NEW
PLANS, FUTURE PLANS AND SO FORTH!

WE ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!

We Have The Solution Already!

We have more than a billion small farmers worldwide and that is
enough to change the world, change the pollution habits of agriculture and to
reforest one hectare each using agroforestry: one farmer family at a time. Around the world
trillions of trees can be planted, emitting oxygen, sequestering carbon and eradicating poverty within five to ten years when these other technologies will still be on the drawing
boards. This technology also places carbon back into the soil while it pulls carbon gasses out of the atmosphere at exponential rates and sustainably, an unrecognized precursor to stopping pollution.

An Existing Technology Which Time
has Arrived: "Capacity Building Agroforestry Advocacy", it includes technologies that produce exponential positive results.

Working at the Grassroots is no joke, it takes special understanding, perseverance and basic honesty, discretion and incremental development with salt-of-the-earth people who are honest, discrete but who do not comprehend incremental-ism. The major concern at this level is today's meal, tomorrow's meal is tomorrow, today is today; "Why are you talking to me about next year?"

01/22/2010

ag⋅ro⋅for⋅est⋅ry

a method and system of land management involving the
simultaneous cultivation of farm crops and trees; agriculture incorporating
the growing of trees: Agroforestry ensures a
continuous food supply, some continuous economic return, and the avoidance of
soil degradation. [1]

01/23/2010

02/05/2010

MATCH CHILDREN FROM THE FIRST WORLD WITH THE FORESTERS OF THE THIRD WORLD AND REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE.

The following is A RECENT SUBMISSION TO GLOBBALL AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING GROUP

"I am new to the group and so a bit clumsy about
starting a discussion and making it appropriate for the children who
will become Climate Heroes. We hear and read daily about the problems
of global warming. On the other hand the prospective solutions that
reach the news are the extremes, using new technologies that are in the
conceptual stages. Some of them are so extreme that they will not be
off of the drawing boards for another decade and each is so expensive
that funding avenues are not feasible. Talking about money first, sorry
to mention a political figure as an example for fund raising, but Obama
raised more money for his campaign in a shorter time than any other
candidate ever. He accepted $3.00 contributions over the Internet. Now
for the solution: Forest degradation is rampant and it is said to be
the largest single contributor to GHG emissions. Our Foundation
reverses deforestation starting at the grassroots level.

OK, now you have it. Money in tiny donations from lots and lots of
contributors, and the planting of trees by millions of people at the
grassroots level. Where do the children become heroes?Public
Awareness is key.We have branding for this which we can license to the
children for the price of a smile and the willingness to adopt it in
your campaigns.Our logo is iconic representing "Less than 2 degrees
centigrade". Please review the blog
http://josephreynolds.typepad.com/blob/
. In the Philippines we are taking the same
principle of tiny, but multiplying it by a big number to reach the goal
of replanting 7% of the Philippines. This project needs public
awareness and will be a great one for the children to support. Just
imagine supporting reforestation in a country that used to have more
than 95% of the land mass covered with trees and now that is down to
2.7%. The people are cooperative and want to reforest, we have the
plan, are gaining support and now we need public awareness. Thank you."

We have millions of children who can become Climate Heroes by practicing the correct energy conservation methods.

The millions of children can MATCH WITH MILLIONS OF GRASSROOTS FORESTERS.

THE RESULT IS BILLIONS OF NEW TREES, THEN HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS AND THEN A TRILLION NEW TREES GROWING AND CLEANING THE AIR within five years.

Now go join this wonderful movement in the Netherlands that will help bring public awareness worldwide: